UM: Obama

A post on Psychology Today’s Scientocracy blog has the provocative headline “Obama is to a Colostomy like Hope is to a …?” In the post, UM physician and behavioral scientist Peter Ubel writes: “Many people voted for Barack Obama in hopes that he’d extricate the country from a whole array of bad situations. Now they wait, with hope, for things to improve. In the meantime, however, they are having a hard time coping with the economy, the situation in Afghanistan, and even with the drawn out process of reforming our health care system. And so they criticize Obama for not making things better, faster. Barack Obama is being bedeviled by the dark side of hope.” [Source]